First American Art Magazine No. 0, Spring 2013

CONTRIBUTORS MELISSA MELERO (Fallon Paiute-Modoc) is a mixed media artist living in Hungry Valley, Nevada. She served as the program associate at Sierra Arts Foundation in Reno, Nevada. Melero has a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and a Bachelor of Science from Portland State University in Oregon. She exhibits her art throughout the United States. JESSICA METCALFE, PhD (Turtle Mountain Chippewa) earned her doctoral degree in American Indian studies from the University of Arizona. Her dissertation was on Native designers of high fashion. Metcalfe is the main author of the Native fashion website, Beyond Buckskin, and is the owner of the Beyond Buckskin Boutique. She has taught courses in Native studies, studio art, art history, and literature at tribal colleges and state universities. She has presented at conferences, lectured, and curated. Currently Metcalfe lives in Bottineau, North Dakota. DENISE NEIL–BINION (Delaware-Cherokee) currently resides in Norman, Oklahoma. She has just completed her Master of Arts degree in Native American art history from the University of New Mexico, and her research interests center on Native American female artists in Oklahoma. She will begin studies for her PhD in Native American art history at the University of Oklahoma in the fall. SARAH SENSE (Chitimacha-Choctaw) is an artist, curator, and writer from Sacramento, California. Sense’s art practice is weaving photographs with her family’s traditional Chitimacha basketry techniques. In 2010 Sense began traveling and researching Indigenous art and culture in North, Central, and South America; the Caribbean Islands; and Southeast Asia, where she currently resides. NEEBINNAUKZHIK SOUTHALL (Chippewas of Rama First Nation) is a graphic designer and artist, working in portrait photography and body painting. She earned an honors BFA from Oregon State University’s graphic design program and the University Honors College, with a minor in fine arts. She created the Native American Graphic Design Project to increase the visibility of North American Indigenous graphic artists. Below: Erin Shaw, The End of A Story that Has No Ending, 2013, 24 x 120 in. Do you have comments, corrections, or general thoughts on what you read here in First American Art Magazine? Please share them with us. You can either email letters to the editor to info@ firstamericanartmagazine. com, subject line “editor,” or mail them to: First American Art Magazine, Attention: Editor, 1000 Cordova Pl. #843, Santa Fe, NM 87505. SPRING 2013 5

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